Do you ever come to the Board just to see if a Certain Someone had posted anything?

  • Thread starter Abrahan "Palare" Garza
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Re: and a goobersmooch...

>
> > oh, it seems a wonderful party indeed - i like witches as well
> > as my daughter.
>
> Witches have never really been on my list of very spooky things...even though
> I did go as one when I was little. It's like, I can believe that ghosts are
> real, but give me some hard evidence that spells actually work.

I have a similar reaction to them - I don`t believe in witches, but I`m not a sceptic at all. Perhaps, under some circumstances they can act someway.

But my present love for witches is much more aesthetic than some kind of spiritual thing. In the world of my daughter witches are really present, and she at the same time love and hate them. In the "german park" in curitiba there`s always a witch who tells stories to the kids. My daughter is terribly affraid of hers - but she loves her at the same time, giving her gifts... it`s funny indeed.

>
> > well, when some "witches" appear in curitiba in
> > halloween they`re always come from
> > english courses...
>
> of course! I guess they are associated with the English because of the
> paganism that used to exist before the Roman Catholic Church butted in and did
> away with it.

Anyway, it seems this paganism seems to be maintained in Great-Britain until nowadays, isn`t it?

>
> > even thinking you should come to curitiba i think you had and
> > excelent idea! i`ve been
> > in europe and i really liked it.
>
> i've been there once before, as the saying goes, it's nice to visit, but not
> to live there.

i`ve been there too shortly in any country to know if it`s good to live there. I was in an excursion and i visited 10 countries in 40 days, you can`t have a real idea of how life is there. Anyway, I stayed almost 5 days in Paris and 5 days in Lisbon, the most
part of these days without the excursion. I was disappointed by Paris, because I thought it had to be a so wonderful city that i knew afterwards it couldn`t exist such a soooo wonderful city... But i really liked it after all. And I was really impressed by Lisbon:
the fact I did a 9-hours plane trip to my your own language afterwards was great! And it is such a beautiful city...

>
> Then again, I've only been in the British Isles. I know it's nothing like the
> Continent.

I stayed to days in London. Everything I could say at this time was "I don`t speak english" (very very slowly...)

It was the only place in Europe i saw outside Frankfurt where the weather was ugly.

>
> > and tell everything! (well, if you want it, of course...)
>
> All I know is that I'm already going to be busy and here I am having to get
> ready for this as well. The England half of it is not making me nervous. Just
> the French bit. I've never been in a position where I'm speaking in a broken
> language to a bunch of natives. That, and I'm taking some chances on all of
> this, but I look at my life and wonder what worse could come?

si tu essaie de parler en français avec eux les français en générale traitent toi très bien, tu peux t`assurer sur ça.

je me rappelle très bien que j`ai vu plus d`un français très content de voir un jeune garçon brésilien de 14 ans en parlant plus ou moins bien le français. Quelques uns d`eux m`acconseillaient même de studier l`anglais... :))

Et evidemment, si tu veux t`entraîner ton français avec moi je serais très heureux de t`aider autant que possible...

>
> > this is good.
>
> > i still remember when my mother said i would go to europe i
> > couldn`t believe her... that
> > trip seemed impossible to me.
>
> It is different, but i'm sure it's not as shocking as going to Africa.

oh, for sure it isn`t - and it seems all french people speak english but they don`t admit it... :)

>
> > this "something" is the trip or are you feeling
> > something more?
>
> Something more. I can't describe it except maybe a resolution...my position
> has changed since the last time I was there and I'm fascinated to see what has
> caught up.

your position in your job, isn`t it? Oh, I hope everything will be ok with you.

And strange thing I had an extraordinary excitation all day long today. I was too happy, I thought I had to calm myself down - but it didn`t come afterwards, as things use to happen with me... I am just a little bit more tired than the normal...

>
> > i believe in intuitions too, and i`m glad things seem to change
> > to you.
>
> > today i felt i had a great intuition - we had elections for
> > curitiba`s mayor. Since the
> > beginning i felt the present mayor would win again.
> > Unfortunately i was correct - he and
> > his partners are really corrupt, unfortunately.
>
> Yeah, the good ol' system. People complain, but they also hate change.

oh yeah - it`s really the case here.
>
> Every year, the same thing in America. They hate what's going on, but they
> feel like voting for something new is a "wasted" vote and they stay with the
> status quo.

Oh, we are not alone in this point...

and talking about politics... will you vote for president?

>
> > of course no - i just offered you a cd and i`ll send it to you
> > if you`ll mail me your
> > adress!
>
> Um, OK.

Hey, I received your mail and I sent the cd to you. They tell me that the cd would arrive in your house hence 15 days. You know some of the stuff of the cd, and I hope you`ll enjoy it!

>
> > hehehe...
>
> > you`ll get rid of me if you want... and i`ll be really sad, know
> > about it!
>
> stand in line!

*great smiles!!!*

>
> > most songs i know are like that. But if i know something i
> > really want to hear again, so
> > the artist enters to my list.
>
> sometimes being beaten over the head with a song is good, but most of the
> time, it really doesn't work that well. if I buy their CD, I usually only
> listen to their big songs and retire it. that's why i like buying things of
> people I don't know @#!!! about.

and the results that are usually good?

i normally try to buy the great number of cds of the artists of "my list", and then i have a collection with few artists and various cds of any of them.

>
> > The case is that i pratically don`t hear anything outside of my
> > "list"... the last guy
> > that entered in it is tricky. Do you know something from him?
>
> heh.
>
> no. not really.

the guy is scaring. Really really scaring.

I don`t know why, i use to remeber the blair witch project when i hear him.

>
> > and it`s nearly november and i have to wear hot pijamas because
> > it`s too much cold for
> > my taste... Curitiba is a strange city.
>
> isn't that normal? You're still in your spring season, right?

perhaps you are correct, but i really don`t want the coldness anymore...

>
> > well, we really don`t have this holiday, as you know... :)))
>
> > what`s wicca?
>
> "Wicca" is the religion that true witches practice. Apparently, it's not devil
> worship because they don't believe in God or Satan, but they commune with
> nature.

I think the traditional catholicism think if you "commune with nature" you are some kind
of satanist, but I`m not that sure.

>
> > did you like blair witch project? i`ve watched it three times
> > and i want to watch it
> > again - and i hope the second one won`t be that bad... as you, i
> > have to see it - and
> > just because of the first i'll enjoy it.
>
> I'm so obsessed with the first one it's not funny.
>
> Usually, scary movies don't really stick with me in that way. But there is
> something so completely different about what it is, and I found out there are
> two sorts of scary movie goers from this:
>
> 1. People who are scared of what they CAN see.
> 2. People who are scared of what they CAN'T see.
>
> People who have to see the monster hated this movie. I'm the complete opposite
> and I wanted to sleep with the lights on that night!

I was too scared too, and I pratically never see a horror movie. I had difficulties to
sleep the next 2 or 3 days after seeing the film too.

I don`t know, the actress were soo affraid, and her fear really came to my unconscious
and did a good job there...

>
> But I did see the 2nd one. I did it yesterday afternoon, and needless to say,
> what I thought would happen to the movie did: it wasn't that great. It was
> really bad when a supposed tour group looking for the witch made it a really
> lame excuse to have a frat boy drinking party in the woods instead, listening
> to the God awful likes of Rob Zombie. The actors are terrible this time around
> as they opted to get rid of people with personality in favor of these wooden
> hipsters that looked like they rolled in on skateboards, yelling at people on
> the street with bullhorns in the latest dot.com commercial.

hehe... good description of the actors... :)

> But I suppose you haven't seen those commercials, so it's hard to translate
> what I mean.

I think i had the general idea...

>
> I'm bitter. I never would have thought there would be a sequel to the movie,
> but my God, let someone who loves and understands what the first one was about
> carry the 2nd film....

oh really.

Anyway, i read today in the newspaper the directors of the first film will do a new
sequence (number 3) in 2001, telling the stories of the 17th Century witch and of the
40`s serial killer. I don`t know what they can do afterwards...

>
> > but halloween really seems a great party and that`s why almost
> > everybody here likes it,
> > and not only because it comes from america.
>
> The Europeans have it, but it's not anything like what we do.
>
> > mardi gras is principally in new orleans, isn`t it?
>
> Yes. I've never seen it, but I heard it's amazing.

Is it in carnival, isn`t it?

The Curitiba`s carnival is worst of Brazil.

This makes me proud of my city!

>
> > and which ideas do you have about dressing something
> > "physically appealling"?
>
> skimpy

really? i have some ideas but i`ll keep them with myself.

>
> but all of those costumes are boring and overdone.
>
> speaking of slutty, I was talking with some guy at work who was talking about
> how some men dress slutty. He mentioned specifically sheer mesh shirts, ones
> you can see through, and I thought of Moz. Yes, he's a slut...

hehehe... or celibatary, who knows?
>
> > i think people who uses to do it must have an excelent wealth,
> > as i would be really sick
> > if i did it!
>
> are you kidding? no. she's not wealthy in any sense of the word.
>
> And you do know that you catch colds from viruses and NOT air circulating
> quickly on your face.

i`m not so sure... i think i saw this happen to me... perhaps this happened when i sweated too much...

>
> > i srill remember the only snow i`ve seen - i did a statue and my
> > mother photographed
> > it.
>
> i'll have to scan in my punk rock snowman!
>
> I made a mohawk out of pine needles. He was great.

hehehe... i have never imagined something like that... it must be fun indeed...
>
> > "... you must be good people because Dürer, Bach, Heine,
> > Goethe, Kleist and Beethoven
> > were germans..."
>
> Hee hee!
>
> "You've got really great beer. Maybe you can share a pint with us! Hello?"

hehe...

"hey guys, come down to see the harpsichord i bought just today! Let`s play the well tempered clavier toghether! ... hey, don`t you like this Kultur thing? I understand... let`s share some weed and some bitches then! I know an excelent place to do it"

>
> > oh really? i didn't know anything about it...
>
> > oh, i really understood your definition - morrissey seems to
> > like to do it with most
> > people`s brains...
>
> > he loves to be contradictory so it`s logic some ideas we have
> > about him are
> > contradictory too.
>
> i know, but he's cute doing it so we can't stay mad at him long!

hehehe... i see...

he must be a good guy...

>
> > have you ever seen one of them?
>
> Believe it or not, no. Many people have seen funnel clouds, but I think
> (luckily) I'm always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

it must be really scaring... i think you had good luck.

I remember one day many years ago when meteorologists said a hurricane (or something similar) would pass by curitiba... nothing happened but i was really impressed.
>
> > generally i watch the Channel 5 in my cable TV or i read some
> > book to keeping up with my
> > french...
>
> I'm great at reading. I can't do any of the rest of it, but I can read.

après le grand nombre d'anées que je ne practique plus le français probablement la lecture est la meilleure chose que j`ai encore de la langue...

>
> >and i come here in the case of the english... :)
>
> well, i have noticed that your english has really improved, and thankfully,
> you haven't taken any of my habits!
>
oh thank you... and don`t be so modest... you always influence others someway.

> > oh, never - anyway, i maintain it would be a good competition!
>
> Yes, me standing there looking confused.
>
> > i see.
>
> I think it's more than that, but to me, when a guy starts bragging about his
> injuries, I could care less. Usually, there is some heroic story about how
> they saved half of the town or scored the winning touchdown, and to me, that's
> trying to impress people with what you have and not with what you are.

and if you have a really good character you don`t do everything to impress others...
>
> Like this one guy I know...sort of a creepy guy if you're on the receiving end
> of his affections from what I hear...that all he talks about is how much money
> he has and his car and how much money he hopes to spend on his new place.

oh, really interesting subjects of conversations... :-(

>All
> he does is earn money and spend it, and you see no evidence of there being any
> sort of thought process about anything else he likes. Then, there was another
> guy I knew who refused to tell girls what he did because he was afraid they
> would see how little he had and leave. Tell me, Fabricio, do you think that
> most women are concerned with money in that extent?

most girls i know aren`t like that.

>To me, it's like if men
> don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting a date, they think, "oh,
> well at least I have my sizeable wallet to fall back on. Some girl will
> eventually catch on that I have one."

I agree. I think what happens is that normally men have to show to women the best side of them (or at least what they think is their best side). There are some guys are just completely insecure about everything and then they get some excuses for their lack of success with girls, and money is more than a good excuse (in front of society at least). Other guys (as the one you quoted who just tell about his money) has no good things to show at all, and their best and single side is their money - so they have to show it.

>
> Everyone assumes we are all broke and looking for a sugar daddy, and it's
> really sad.

and women just want more than this - but i see most men simply can`t see it...

>
> > hehe...
>
> > apparently yes... but after few conversations you really don`t
> > seem it anymore.
>
> Oh but Fabricio, you must be tough....

oh really? why?

> and would you believe most people still
> don't think I'm very tough? I guess this website is probably the toughest I
> get.

sorry, but you mean tough as nearer "rude" or nearer "strong"? I`m always confused with this word, because "rude" and "strong" are completely different meanings to me.

I think you are a strong girl in the better sense of the word, but you really aren`t as rude as some people here may think you are... you know i really like you.
 
Re: a dream

> Also, I have to tell you before I forget, that I had a dream
> about you last night. You had gotten some girl pregnant and you
> were paying her child support under the table so your wife
> wouldn't find out. I then discovered this girl might have been
> sleeping with someone else at the time, and I tell you to get a
> blood test to see who the real dad was, but you said you would
> rather keep paying the money because you were afraid this other
> girl would run and make a big stink to your wife.

oh, i`m really really glad you dreamt about me...

anyway, do you think i`m affraid of my wife? :)
 
Re: and a goobersmooch...

> I have a similar reaction to them - I don`t believe in witches,
> but I`m not a sceptic at all. Perhaps, under some circumstances
> they can act someway.

I wish someone had done a better job of explaining the witch hysteria back in the 1600's. Somebody forgot to mention that there was an overlap of religious beliefs for quite some time.

> But my present love for witches is much more aesthetic than some
> kind of spiritual thing. In the world of my daughter witches are
> really present, and she at the same time love and hate them. In
> the "german park" in curitiba there`s always a witch
> who tells stories to the kids. My daughter is terribly affraid
> of hers - but she loves her at the same time, giving her
> gifts... it`s funny indeed.

kind of like santa claus...who is also Morrissey.

hey, he's a witch!

> Anyway, it seems this paganism seems to be maintained in
> Great-Britain until nowadays, isn`t it?

I guess. I don't run into too many pagans.

> i`ve been there too shortly in any country to know if it`s good
> to live there. I was in an excursion and i visited 10 countries
> in 40 days, you can`t have a real idea of how life is there.
> Anyway, I stayed almost 5 days in Paris and 5 days in Lisbon,
> the most
> part of these days without the excursion. I was disappointed by
> Paris, because I thought it had to be a so wonderful city that i
> knew afterwards it couldn`t exist such a soooo wonderful city...
> But i really liked it after all.

I too am worried about Paris. I plan to spend 3 days there, and I really don't know what I'm going to do with myself!

>And I was really impressed by
> Lisbon:
> the fact I did a 9-hours plane trip to my your own language
> afterwards was great! And it is such a beautiful city...

That's one of those places where I probably want someone else to come with me.

> I stayed to days in London. Everything I could say at this time
> was "I don`t speak english" (very very slowly...)

well, at least London is used to people not knowing English. It's a very easy place to move around in.

> It was the only place in Europe i saw outside Frankfurt where
> the weather was ugly.

True. The British Isles are one of those places where you really do learn how to appreciate a sunny day.

> si tu essaie de parler en français avec eux les français en
> générale traitent toi très bien, tu peux t`assurer sur ça.

yes, i know this. i tell people this who think i will be treated like crap by the french, and it's taking me a long time to explain how American tourists are very ugly.

> je me rappelle très bien que j`ai vu plus d`un français très
> content de voir un jeune garçon brésilien de 14 ans en parlant
> plus ou moins bien le français. Quelques uns d`eux
> m`acconseillaient même de studier l`anglais... :))

> Et evidemment, si tu veux t`entraîner ton français avec moi je
> serais très heureux de t`aider autant que possible...

no, that doesn't help my speaking skills at all....

> oh, for sure it isn`t - and it seems all french people speak
> english but they don`t admit it... :)

if you were overrun by the English, you wouldn't admit it, would you?

> your position in your job, isn`t it? Oh, I hope everything will
> be ok with you.

not my position in my job. this has nothing to do with it.

let's see....since i first went over, what I am has changed. i'm going over there knowing a lot more this time, and it's sort of like coming face to face with that thing you have not been able to put a description to because you're not sure what you're dealing with. i'm as interested in what it thinks of me now as I am of finding out where it's been going.

> And strange thing I had an extraordinary excitation all day long
> today. I was too happy, I thought I had to calm myself down -
> but it didn`t come afterwards, as things use to happen with
> me... I am just a little bit more tired than the normal...

why so?

> oh yeah - it`s really the case here.

> Oh, we are not alone in this point...

> and talking about politics... will you vote for president?

Nader! I refuse George W on many many things, and I refuse Gore for also being a loser.

> Hey, I received your mail and I sent the cd to you. They tell me
> that the cd would arrive in your house hence 15 days. You know
> some of the stuff of the cd, and I hope you`ll enjoy it!

should be waiting for me when i get back...

> *great smiles!!!*

> and the results that are usually good?

> i normally try to buy the great number of cds of the artists of
> "my list", and then i have a collection with few
> artists and various cds of any of them.

at least you are out listening.

> the guy is scaring. Really really scaring.

> I don`t know why, i use to remeber the blair witch project when
> i hear him.

> perhaps you are correct, but i really don`t want the coldness
> anymore...

> I think the traditional catholicism think if you "commune
> with nature" you are some kind
> of satanist, but I`m not that sure.

i think it's the policy of the church to say that any other religion has some affiliation with satan.

> I was too scared too, and I pratically never see a horror movie.
> I had difficulties to
> sleep the next 2 or 3 days after seeing the film too.

me too. i was happy when the sun rose.

> I don`t know, the actress were soo affraid, and her fear really
> came to my unconscious
> and did a good job there...

yes. people complain that she was too shrill, but i didn't think so.

then again, i also did NOT get motion sick watching the movie.

> hehe... good description of the actors... :)

> I think i had the general idea...

maybe i expected too much from this movie. I keep forgetting that a big chunk of the box office came from people who weren't Indie Movie Nerds such as myself.

> oh really.

> Anyway, i read today in the newspaper the directors of the first
> film will do a new
> sequence (number 3) in 2001, telling the stories of the 17th
> Century witch and of the
> 40`s serial killer. I don`t know what they can do afterwards...

*augghh!*

thank god they didn't let Berlinger continue on.

i still wondered what kind of sequel you could make out of this anyway that was true to the original without ruining what the original was about. i did start working on part of one at work....

> Is it in carnival, isn`t it?

> The Curitiba`s carnival is worst of Brazil.

> This makes me proud of my city!

> really? i have some ideas but i`ll keep them with myself.

bad!

i'll tell ya that fake blood is not a turn on for most guys. then again, it's 6th street i'm talking about. i don't think i want that sort of attention.

> hehehe... or celibatary, who knows?

> i`m not so sure... i think i saw this happen to me... perhaps
> this happened when i sweated too much...

> hehehe... i have never imagined something like that... it must
> be fun indeed...

> hehe...

> "hey guys, come down to see the harpsichord i bought just
> today! Let`s play the well tempered clavier toghether! ... hey,
> don`t you like this Kultur thing? I understand... let`s share
> some weed and some bitches then! I know an excelent place to do
> it"

"Nein, they are too hairless. it's not good, ja?"

> hehehe... i see...

> he must be a good guy...

> it must be really scaring... i think you had good luck.

i could be whirled off tomorrow. thanks for jinxing me.

> I remember one day many years ago when meteorologists said a
> hurricane (or something similar) would pass by curitiba...
> nothing happened but i was really impressed.

> après le grand nombre d'anées que je ne practique plus le
> français probablement la lecture est la meilleure chose que j`ai
> encore de la langue...
> oh thank you... and don`t be so modest... you always influence
> others someway.

mostly bad. that's why i stay at home so much.

> and if you have a really good character you don`t do everything
> to impress others...

i dont know. you can believe that you are a bad person even if you're not.

> oh, really interesting subjects of conversations... :-(

> most girls i know aren`t like that.

> I agree. I think what happens is that normally men have to show
> to women the best side of them (or at least what they think is
> their best side). There are some guys are just completely
> insecure about everything and then they get some excuses for
> their lack of success with girls, and money is more than a good
> excuse (in front of society at least). Other guys (as the one
> you quoted who just tell about his money) has no good things to
> show at all, and their best and single side is their money - so
> they have to show it.

well, if it works and both people understand what's going on....truly, if some guy goes around flashing his wallet, he shouldn't be too surprised if he finds out she REALLY likes his money.

> and women just want more than this - but i see most men simply
> can`t see it...

they also equate being a good provider with being a real man.

> oh really? why?

> sorry, but you mean tough as nearer "rude" or nearer
> "strong"? I`m always confused with this word, because
> "rude" and "strong" are completely different
> meanings to me.

strong.

i know it confused this penpal of mine when I first met him face to face a couple of years ago. He said I was absolutely nothing like what I write.

i don't know where either side of my personality comes from. i didn't realize i came across sounding one way here because I'm so used to being treated in a completely different way that i had absolutely no concept of the idea that i could be rude or pushy.

> I think you are a strong girl in the better sense of the word,
> but you really aren`t as rude as some people here may think you
> are... you know i really like you.

has my rudeness been a subject of debate somewhere?
 
Re: and a goobersmooch...

hello suzanne, could you advise me when you`ll go to Europe?

> > I have a similar reaction to them - I don`t believe in witches,
> > but I`m not a sceptic at all. Perhaps, under some circumstances
> > they can act someway.
>
> I wish someone had done a better job of explaining the witch hysteria back in
> the 1600's. Somebody forgot to mention that there was an overlap of religious
> beliefs for quite some time.

there`s an excelent film with daniel-day lewis and winona ryder about it, isn`t it? I don`t remember its name, but it`s about the witch hysteria in the early USA.

and i dìdn`t know about this overlap of religious beliefs (is it similar to the one from our time?)

>
> > But my present love for witches is much more aesthetic than some
> > kind of spiritual thing. In the world of my daughter witches are
> > really present, and she at the same time love and hate them. In
> > the "german park" in curitiba there`s always a witch
> > who tells stories to the kids. My daughter is terribly affraid
> > of hers - but she loves her at the same time, giving her
> > gifts... it`s funny indeed.
>
> kind of like santa claus...who is also Morrissey.
>
> hey, he's a witch!

do you really think so? :)

anyway, he seems to like witches, isn`t it? there are some of them in the ouija board video.

>
> > Anyway, it seems this paganism seems to be maintained in
> > Great-Britain until nowadays, isn`t it?
>
> I guess. I don't run into too many pagans.

in Brazil there are many people who go to pagan cerimonies. These paganisms usually came from africa, and normally they are someway mixed into catholic beliefs.

>
> > i`ve been there too shortly in any country to know if it`s good
> > to live there. I was in an excursion and i visited 10 countries
> > in 40 days, you can`t have a real idea of how life is there.
> > Anyway, I stayed almost 5 days in Paris and 5 days in Lisbon,
> > the most
> > part of these days without the excursion. I was disappointed by
> > Paris, because I thought it had to be a so wonderful city that i
> > knew afterwards it couldn`t exist such a soooo wonderful city...
> > But i really liked it after all.
>
> I too am worried about Paris. I plan to spend 3 days there, and I really don't
> know what I'm going to do with myself!

and how do you'll stay there? alone and in a hotel?

I hope you'll like it!

>
> >And I was really impressed by
> > Lisbon:
> > the fact I did a 9-hours plane trip to my your own language
> > afterwards was great! And it is such a beautiful city...
>
> That's one of those places where I probably want someone else to come with me.

why? because of the language?

oh, i told you i wouldn`t tell these kind of things to you...

>
> > I stayed to days in London. Everything I could say at this time
> > was "I don`t speak english" (very very slowly...)
>
> well, at least London is used to people not knowing English.

people not knowing english?

>It's a very easy
> place to move around in.

why?

>
> > It was the only place in Europe i saw outside Frankfurt where
> > the weather was ugly.
>
> True. The British Isles are one of those places where you really do learn how
> to appreciate a sunny day.

Curitiba is not so hard but i really enjoy sunny days.

The someway strange thing is that when i am so happy because of the good weather people uses to complain about the hotness.

Complaining about our weather is a municipal sport!

>
> > si tu essaie de parler en français avec eux les français en
> > générale traitent toi très bien, tu peux t`assurer sur ça.
>
> yes, i know this. i tell people this who think i will be treated like crap by
> the french, and it's taking me a long time to explain how American tourists
> are very ugly.

do you think so?

well, in general brazilian tourists are very ugly too.

>
> > je me rappelle très bien que j`ai vu plus d`un français très
> > content de voir un jeune garçon brésilien de 14 ans en parlant
> > plus ou moins bien le français. Quelques uns d`eux
> > m`acconseillaient même de studier l`anglais... :))
>
> > Et evidemment, si tu veux t`entraîner ton français avec moi je
> > serais très heureux de t`aider autant que possible...
>
> no, that doesn't help my speaking skills at all....

i understand - i think about it about my english too.

anyway, if you have netmeeting... :)

>
> > oh, for sure it isn`t - and it seems all french people speak
> > english but they don`t admit it... :)
>
> if you were overrun by the English, you wouldn't admit it, would you?

I`m not so sure - I think the problem with french people is that they just lose their economic and cultural importance in relation to america, then they are revolted against it...

>
> > your position in your job, isn`t it? Oh, I hope everything will
> > be ok with you.
>
> not my position in my job. this has nothing to do with it.
>
> let's see....since i first went over, what I am has changed. i'm going over
> there knowing a lot more this time, and it's sort of like coming face to face
> with that thing you have not been able to put a description to because you're
> not sure what you're dealing with. i'm as interested in what it thinks of me
> now as I am of finding out where it's been going.

the fact you know more about Europe this time makes you are more secure, isn`t it?

i think this is a good way to make a trip indeed.

as, for me, i don`t know. After so many years without making a trip i would be a little bit scared if i did it just now...

>
> > And strange thing I had an extraordinary excitation all day long
> > today. I was too happy, I thought I had to calm myself down -
> > but it didn`t come afterwards, as things use to happen with
> > me... I am just a little bit more tired than the normal...
>
> why so?

i don`t know really. I`m feeling very strange these days.

I have to do more classes as a teacher, I have to do so many things, some changes at home...

I don`t know - perhaps it`s just a little bit of fever or something.

>
> > oh yeah - it`s really the case here.
>
> > Oh, we are not alone in this point...
>
> > and talking about politics... will you vote for president?
>
> Nader! I refuse George W on many many things, and I refuse Gore for also being
> a loser.

This Nader guy is the guy who helps american consumers, isn`t him?

I don`t remeber his face, and, even being too much conservative for my taste, bush seems to be a much more cool guy than gore. I don`t like gore`s face, he remembers me a guy who worked with me and who i didn`t like that much.

>
> > Hey, I received your mail and I sent the cd to you. They tell me
> > that the cd would arrive in your house hence 15 days. You know
> > some of the stuff of the cd, and I hope you`ll enjoy it!
>
> should be waiting for me when i get back...

oh really!

> > i normally try to buy the great number of cds of the artists of
> > "my list", and then i have a collection with few
> > artists and various cds of any of them.
>
> at least you are out listening.

yeah - i hear music all day long at work.
>
> > I think the traditional catholicism think if you "commune
> > with nature" you are some kind
> > of satanist, but I`m not that sure.
>
> i think it's the policy of the church to say that any other religion has some
> affiliation with satan.

anyway, satan is much more attached to the earth than to the heaven, isn`t he?

i think the position of the church makes sense someway.

>
> > I was too scared too, and I pratically never see a horror movie.
> > I had difficulties to
> > sleep the next 2 or 3 days after seeing the film too.
>
> me too. i was happy when the sun rose.

well, at least i could sleep... :)

>
> > I don`t know, the actress were soo affraid, and her fear really
> > came to my unconscious
> > and did a good job there...
>
> yes. people complain that she was too shrill, but i didn't think so.

well, the way the film was made really made sense of her hysteria - anyone would be hysteric in her place...

>
> then again, i also did NOT get motion sick watching the movie.

what motion sick is?

>
> > hehe... good description of the actors... :)
>
> > I think i had the general idea...
>
> maybe i expected too much from this movie.

i think it`s very difficult to make a sequence of such a movie indeed. As I have have read, the new director had too much respect for the first filme and then he made something completely different.

But it could be really worst: I can imagine a really horrible sequence where the three actors of the first film return to earth as zombies...

>I keep forgetting that a big chunk
> of the box office came from people who weren't Indie Movie Nerds such as
> myself.

hehe... i don`t think i know too much about indie movies...

i generally and watch like very old movies.

>
> > oh really.
>
> > Anyway, i read today in the newspaper the directors of the first
> > film will do a new
> > sequence (number 3) in 2001, telling the stories of the 17th
> > Century witch and of the
> > 40`s serial killer. I don`t know what they can do afterwards...
>
> *augghh!*
>
> thank god they didn't let Berlinger continue on.

was he that bad so?

>
> i still wondered what kind of sequel you could make out of this anyway that
> was true to the original without ruining what the original was about. i did
> start working on part of one at work....

oh really?

in what consisted your sequence?

> > really? i have some ideas but i`ll keep them with myself.
>
> bad!
>
> i'll tell ya that fake blood is not a turn on for most guys. then again, it's
> 6th street i'm talking about. i don't think i want that sort of attention.

hehehe...

so you would wear cramps-type skimpy clothes and you would be dirty by fake blood?

i can`t resist to tell you I would like to see it, sorry...

(don`t be angry with me)

>
> > "hey guys, come down to see the harpsichord i bought just
> > today! Let`s play the well tempered clavier toghether! ... hey,
> > don`t you like this Kultur thing? I understand... let`s share
> > some weed and some bitches then! I know an excelent place to do
> > it"
>
> "Nein, they are too hairless. it's not good, ja?"

"ok, but they`re hot like hell."

("Of course, as the poor ones are living in hell", the englishman think...)

>
> > hehehe... i see...
>
> > he must be a good guy...
>
> > it must be really scaring... i think you had good luck.
>
> i could be whirled off tomorrow. thanks for jinxing me.

ops... sorry... i did a mistake again...

sorry again...

>
> > après le grand nombre d'anées que je ne practique plus le
> > français probablement la lecture est la meilleure chose que j`ai
> > encore de la langue...
> > oh thank you... and don`t be so modest... you always influence
> > others someway.
>
> mostly bad. that's why i stay at home so much.

heheh... well, I don`t think you are a bad influence to me.

>
> > and if you have a really good character you don`t do everything
> > to impress others...
>
> i dont know. you can believe that you are a bad person even if you're not.

well, normally good people think they are worse than they are in reality, and bad people think they are better than they are in reality...

>
> > oh, really interesting subjects of conversations... :-(
>
> > most girls i know aren`t like that.
>
> > I agree. I think what happens is that normally men have to show
> > to women the best side of them (or at least what they think is
> > their best side). There are some guys are just completely
> > insecure about everything and then they get some excuses for
> > their lack of success with girls, and money is more than a good
> > excuse (in front of society at least). Other guys (as the one
> > you quoted who just tell about his money) has no good things to
> > show at all, and their best and single side is their money - so
> > they have to show it.
>
> well, if it works and both people understand what's going on....truly, if some
> guy goes around flashing his wallet, he shouldn't be too surprised if he finds
> out she REALLY likes his money.

oh really.

This is the best he can do!

>
> > and women just want more than this - but i see most men simply
> > can`t see it...
>
> they also equate being a good provider with being a real man.

yeah, but sometimes this is just because they are insecure.

sometimes not.

>
> > oh really? why?
>
> > sorry, but you mean tough as nearer "rude" or nearer
> > "strong"? I`m always confused with this word, because
> > "rude" and "strong" are completely different
> > meanings to me.
>
> strong.
>
> i know it confused this penpal of mine when I first met him face to face a
> couple of years ago. He said I was absolutely nothing like what I write.

well, interesting thing indeed.

Talking to you the way I have talking you really seem a little bit different person to me today.

I think I would not be so surprised with you.... well, I don`t know.

>
> i don't know where either side of my personality comes from. i didn't realize
> i came across sounding one way here because I'm so used to being treated in a
> completely different way that i had absolutely no concept of the idea that i
> could be rude or pushy.

oh yeah, i understand.

Normally people here was too rude for my taste - I saw I had to change myself to survive here.

I was a young and shy guy, and i wrote too badly the english, and so people said horrible things to me because I didn`t have the musical taste morrissey fans usually have - I was completely shocked, believe me.

>
> > I think you are a strong girl in the better sense of the word,
> > but you really aren`t as rude as some people here may think you
> > are... you know i really like you.
>
> has my rudeness been a subject of debate somewhere?

well, i remember that this happened two or three times here... do you agree?
 
Re: and a goobersmooch...

> hello suzanne, could you advise me when you`ll go to Europe?

A week from tomorrow! I woke up this morning, and the itinerary I had been trying to pound out suddenly came to me. Now, I need to round up the correct currency and all the other little things and I'll be set.

I can't believe it's a week away. I must be crazy.

> there`s an excelent film with daniel-day lewis and winona ryder
> about it, isn`t it? I don`t remember its name, but it`s about
> the witch hysteria in the early USA.

The Scarlet Letter?

Oh, wait, that's Demi Moore.

> and i dìdn`t know about this overlap of religious beliefs (is it
> similar to the one from our time?)

The people who originally lived in Britain were pagans. Not everyone became a Christian overnight.

> do you really think so? :)

Americans are americans. They have no concept of being somewhere and having to bend to their rules.

> anyway, he seems to like witches, isn`t it? there are some of
> them in the ouija board video.

i didn't know that! I haven't seen that video.

> in Brazil there are many people who go to pagan cerimonies.
> These paganisms usually came from africa, and normally they are
> someway mixed into catholic beliefs.

I think that's something different.

> and how do you'll stay there? alone and in a hotel?

Youth hostels all the way! Those really make the trip. You meet interesting people, hang out in cool places, and you aren't confined by yourself to a room.

> I hope you'll like it!

> why? because of the language?

yes.

> oh, i told you i wouldn`t tell these kind of things to you...

you did?

> people not knowing english?

> why?

> Curitiba is not so hard but i really enjoy sunny days.

> The someway strange thing is that when i am so happy because of
> the good weather people uses to complain about the hotness.

> Complaining about our weather is a municipal sport!

Yeah, we complained about the drought. Now, it's raining like crazy. The morons who manage this place were supposed to fix a hole in the roof and it the water broke the ceiling of the girl below me.

> do you think so?

> well, in general brazilian tourists are very ugly too.

> i understand - i think about it about my english too.

yes, but you have good english. i'd get back my papers that I had written in french with more red marks than what I had written!

> anyway, if you have netmeeting... :)

which i don't....

> I`m not so sure - I think the problem with french people is that
> they just lose their economic and cultural importance in
> relation to america, then they are revolted against it...

I don't know. I'll find out, i'm sure.

> the fact you know more about Europe this time makes you are more
> secure, isn`t it?

Sort of. I feel like this is the closest to slipping into my secret double life as I'm going to get.

> i think this is a good way to make a trip indeed.

> as, for me, i don`t know. After so many years without making a
> trip i would be a little bit scared if i did it just now...

> i don`t know really. I`m feeling very strange these days.

why?

> I have to do more classes as a teacher, I have to do so many
> things, some changes at home...

uh oh....

> I don`t know - perhaps it`s just a little bit of fever or
> something.

> This Nader guy is the guy who helps american consumers, isn`t
> him?

that's the guy.

> I don`t remeber his face, and, even being too much conservative
> for my taste, bush seems to be a much more cool guy than gore. I
> don`t like gore`s face, he remembers me a guy who worked with me
> and who i didn`t like that much.

oh no, Fabricio, George W. is a moron. It's sad because back in '88 when Quayle was running, his gaffs were proudly announced on TV. Now, they are sort of whispered because for whatever reason, it's like the press wants him to win. Bush is not a smart guy. He doesn't know a whole lot about anything. But since he's republican and already has many ties to big business, everyone from the stockmarket downward is salivating for this moron who can be swayed by their interests without much thought to get in.

> oh really!

> yeah - i hear music all day long at work.

> anyway, satan is much more attached to the earth than to the
> heaven, isn`t he?

> i think the position of the church makes sense someway.

Not exactly. Pagans existed before they even knew what christianity was.

> well, at least i could sleep... :)

> well, the way the film was made really made sense of her
> hysteria - anyone would be hysteric in her place...

exactly. i thought she was cool.

> what motion sick is?

you know that feeling like if you are on a boat or in a car and it sways too much and you get nauseated.

> i think it`s very difficult to make a sequence of such a movie
> indeed. As I have have read, the new director had too much
> respect for the first filme and then he made something
> completely different.

he could have had more respect by developing the characters, making the scenarios a bit more plausible, etc.

Not a pile of rocks to be seen!

> But it could be really worst: I can imagine a really horrible
> sequence where the three actors of the first film return to
> earth as zombies...

they grow out of the ground as oak trees.

> hehe... i don`t think i know too much about indie movies...

> i generally and watch like very old movies.

i watch anything that people make me watch as long as it isn't a Mel Brooks film post 1990, or something else where the comedy is really bad.

> was he that bad so?

> oh really?

> in what consisted your sequence?

it is to be part 4 of my Moz saga. I'm in no position to write a "real" movie, so I'll do this instead.

> hehehe...

> so you would wear cramps-type skimpy clothes and you would be
> dirty by fake blood?

> i can`t resist to tell you I would like to see it, sorry...

> (don`t be angry with me)

ewwww!!!

> "ok, but they`re hot like hell."

> ("Of course, as the poor ones are living in hell", the
> englishman think...)

> ops... sorry... i did a mistake again...

> sorry again...

> heheh... well, I don`t think you are a bad influence to me.

> well, normally good people think they are worse than they are in
> reality, and bad people think they are better than they are in
> reality...

I think i'm bad. People confirm it. We're on the same page.

> oh really.

> This is the best he can do!

> yeah, but sometimes this is just because they are insecure.

> sometimes not.

what a rainy evening! i'm huddled inside with some cinnamon tea. i want to call in sick for the heck of it.

> well, interesting thing indeed.

> Talking to you the way I have talking you really seem a little
> bit different person to me today.

i evolve

> I think I would not be so surprised with you.... well, I don`t
> know.

> oh yeah, i understand.

> Normally people here was too rude for my taste - I saw I had to
> change myself to survive here.

> I was a young and shy guy, and i wrote too badly the english,
> and so people said horrible things to me because I didn`t have
> the musical taste morrissey fans usually have - I was completely
> shocked, believe me.

we hate everything. we are moz fans.

> well, i remember that this happened two or three times here...
> do you agree?

Oh. Well, who knows? Some people take it wrong. Some people are naturally looney. Sometimes i'm rude to people who were being incredibly dumb. Sometimes, I have no idea that I did anything wrong because I just wasn't raised correctly.
 
Re: and a goobersmooch...

Hello, Suzanne, sorry for the question (of course you don`t need to answer if don`t want to) but have you thought about me this holiday?

I thought about you... strange thoughts indeed...

no, not sexy ones...

> > hello suzanne, could you advise me when you`ll go to Europe?
>
> A week from tomorrow! I woke up this morning, and the itinerary I had been
> trying to pound out suddenly came to me. Now, I need to round up the correct
> currency and all the other little things and I'll be set.
>
> I can't believe it's a week away. I must be crazy.

It must be the November 9th, isn`t it? I am already at November 7th...

Oh, it`s really soo near!

I wish again everything will be ok with your trip.

>
> > there`s an excelent film with daniel-day lewis and winona ryder
> > about it, isn`t it? I don`t remember its name, but it`s about
> > the witch hysteria in the early USA.
>
> The Scarlet Letter?
>
> Oh, wait, that's Demi Moore.

Oh yeah... I have to find out the name of this film in the internet...

>
> > and i dìdn`t know about this overlap of religious beliefs (is it
> > similar to the one from our time?)
>
> The people who originally lived in Britain were pagans. Not everyone became a
> Christian overnight.

yeah.

And the Anglican Church seems someway pagan to me...

Just kiding.

>
> > do you really think so? :)
>
> Americans are americans. They have no concept of being somewhere and having to
> bend to their rules.
>
> > anyway, he seems to like witches, isn`t it? there are some of
> > them in the ouija board video.
>
> i didn't know that! I haven't seen that video.

oh, he began the video with the infamous Ouija-Board. Then the table makes some circles and he falls in a forest! There are lots of witches who make their enchantments...

I don`t remember exactly what happens in the end, but I remember Morrissey trying to escape from some witches, and the witches happy in the end.

I`ll see the video again and then I`ll make a better description to you!

>
> > in Brazil there are many people who go to pagan cerimonies.
> > These paganisms usually came from africa, and normally they are
> > someway mixed into catholic beliefs.
>
> I think that's something different.

Sorry, what`s different?

The britain pagan traditions?

>
> > and how do you'll stay there? alone and in a hotel?
>
> Youth hostels all the way! Those really make the trip. You meet interesting
> people, hang out in cool places, and you aren't confined by yourself to a
> room.

youth hostels?

I remeber my sister went to the Brazilian State of Bahia this way - she liked a lot her trip!

I`ve been always too shy to do such a thing. If I knew that I had to know "new" people I simply trembled. I`m not that shy anymore... but you see? I`m never the "popular" one...

Sometimes I`m really happy and I even make some jokes - but usually knowing new people is not my favourite sport...

>
> > I hope you'll like it!
>
> > why? because of the language?
>
> yes.

It`s a beautiful language indeed - the Portuguese.

Weel, at least I`m a Portuguese spoken person... :)

>
> > oh, i told you i wouldn`t tell these kind of things to you...
>
> you did?

I think so, but I`m not that sure.

But you see? sometimes I miss it...

oh, don`t be angry with me...

>
> > Curitiba is not so hard but i really enjoy sunny days.
>
> > The someway strange thing is that when i am so happy because of
> > the good weather people uses to complain about the hotness.
>
> > Complaining about our weather is a municipal sport!
>
> Yeah, we complained about the drought. Now, it's raining like crazy. The
> morons who manage this place were supposed to fix a hole in the roof and it
> the water broke the ceiling of the girl below me.

it must be an enormous hole in your ceiling, isn`t it?

>
>
> > i understand - i think about it about my english too.
>
> yes, but you have good english.

thank you very much.

And tomorrow I`ll begin English conversation classes (my teacher is one of my students)! I`m still really scared of speaking English, and I hope this will finish one day.

And perhaps you won`t laugh of my spoken English! :)

>i'd get back my papers that I had written in
> french with more red marks than what I had written!

but don`t worry abou it - my french lessons were always like that. I think french teachers love to do it to their students to make them scared.
>
> > anyway, if you have netmeeting... :)
>
> which i don't....

anyway...

>
> > I`m not so sure - I think the problem with french people is that
> > they just lose their economic and cultural importance in
> > relation to america, then they are revolted against it...
>
> I don't know. I'll find out, i'm sure.

and tell me then, please - I`m still a little bit interested by French people.

>
> > the fact you know more about Europe this time makes you are more
> > secure, isn`t it?
>
> Sort of. I feel like this is the closest to slipping into my secret double
> life as I'm going to get.

do you think you have a second double life in Europe?

Well, strangely I feel the same - and that my double life belongs to German, there`s no doubt about it.

What I feel when I hear Schubert - who was Austrian... - lieder (as I am hearing now) doesn`t permit me to have a different opinion.

>
> > i don`t know really. I`m feeling very strange these days.
>
> why?

It`s strange - sometimes I feel too happy, and sometimes I feel guilty (I think I`m doing some bad things).

>
> > I have to do more classes as a teacher, I have to do so many
> > things, some changes at home...
>
> uh oh....

oh yeah, I really don`t know what`s about.

> > This Nader guy is the guy who helps american consumers, isn`t
> > him?
>
> that's the guy.

I remeber I read about him in an encyclopedia about the seventies...

>
> > I don`t remeber his face, and, even being too much conservative
> > for my taste, bush seems to be a much more cool guy than gore. I
> > don`t like gore`s face, he remembers me a guy who worked with me
> > and who i didn`t like that much.
>
> oh no, Fabricio, George W. is a moron. It's sad because back in '88 when
> Quayle was running, his gaffs were proudly announced on TV. Now, they are sort
> of whispered because for whatever reason, it's like the press wants him to
> win. Bush is not a smart guy. He doesn't know a whole lot about anything. But
> since he's republican and already has many ties to big business, everyone from
> the stockmarket downward is salivating for this moron who can be swayed by
> their interests without much thought to get in.

I see... but Al Gore seems to be a hypocrite, isn`t he? Or am I wrong?

I`ve read today that George W.`s government will be less protectionist and therefore better to Brazil. Well, I think the guy is less hypocrite, and if he`ll be better to Brazil, then... hehehe...

>
> > anyway, satan is much more attached to the earth than to the
> > heaven, isn`t he?
>
> > i think the position of the church makes sense someway.
>
> Not exactly. Pagans existed before they even knew what christianity was.

There`s no doubt about it - but Church thinks they had to change after Church`s arriving!

>
> > well, at least i could sleep... :)
>
> > well, the way the film was made really made sense of her
> > hysteria - anyone would be hysteric in her place...
>
> exactly. i thought she was cool.

me too - an do you know where have she been?

Anyway, there was a story that the directors really scared the actors, do you believe in it?

I can`t. I particulary can`t believe the directors could be so evil. They really seemed to be scared.

>
> > what motion sick is?
>
> you know that feeling like if you are on a boat or in a car and it sways too
> much and you get nauseated.

Oh!

I didn`t have it in the film either.

>
> > i think it`s very difficult to make a sequence of such a movie
> > indeed. As I have have read, the new director had too much
> > respect for the first filme and then he made something
> > completely different.
>
> he could have had more respect by developing the characters, making the
> scenarios a bit more plausible, etc.

And I think all these things were very well respect in the first movie. You see, all the times somebody picked up the camera really made sense.

>
> Not a pile of rocks to be seen!
>
> > But it could be really worst: I can imagine a really horrible
> > sequence where the three actors of the first film return to
> > earth as zombies...
>
> they grow out of the ground as oak trees.

hehe... at least this would be funny...

>
> > hehe... i don`t think i know too much about indie movies...
>
> > i generally and watch like very old movies.
>
> i watch anything that people make me watch as long as it isn't a Mel Brooks
> film post 1990, or something else where the comedy is really bad.

I hate the american teenage comedies I had to see with my friends when I was a teenager such that horrendous Porky`s.

And i never laughed in a single Mel Brooks comedy - but here the problem must be mine...

>
> > was he that bad so?
>
> > oh really?
>
> > in what consisted your sequence?
>
> it is to be part 4 of my Moz saga. I'm in no position to write a "real" movie,
> so I'll do this instead.

oh, part 4?

I really would like to read it.

There`s nothing to do it, but today I almost bought some trash brazilian cds, but I hadn`t the courage. They are soo funny...

>
> > hehehe...
>
> > so you would wear cramps-type skimpy clothes and you would be
> > dirty by fake blood?
>
> > i can`t resist to tell you I would like to see it, sorry...
>
> > (don`t be angry with me)
>
> ewwww!!!

this means you are angry with me or not?

>
> > heheh... well, I don`t think you are a bad influence to me.
>
> > well, normally good people think they are worse than they are in
> > reality, and bad people think they are better than they are in
> > reality...
>
> I think i'm bad. People confirm it. We're on the same page.

Well, what other people think about us really doesn`t count. Hnia thinks I am a really bad guy, and i know I`m not that bad.

Just a little bit bad, you see?

>
> > oh really.
>
> > This is the best he can do!
>
> > yeah, but sometimes this is just because they are insecure.
>
> > sometimes not.
>
> what a rainy evening! i'm huddled inside with some cinnamon tea. i want to
> call in sick for the heck of it.

oh, I really like rainy evenings where I can huddled inside with some pepsi light...

>
> > well, interesting thing indeed.
>
> > Talking to you the way I have talking you really seem a little
> > bit different person to me today.
>
> i evolve

I agree, but I think you changed your ways after some conversations.

>
>
> > Normally people here was too rude for my taste - I saw I had to
> > change myself to survive here.
>
> > I was a young and shy guy, and i wrote too badly the english,
> > and so people said horrible things to me because I didn`t have
> > the musical taste morrissey fans usually have - I was completely
> > shocked, believe me.
>
> we hate everything. we are moz fans.

you are in a strange mood, aren`t you? :)

>
> > well, i remember that this happened two or three times here...
> > do you agree?
>
> Oh. Well, who knows? Some people take it wrong. Some people are naturally
> looney. Sometimes i'm rude to people who were being incredibly dumb.

Well, if people are simply dumb I think there`s no problem about it - but if they can`t see they are bothering me then i really desire to be rude...

> Sometimes, I have no idea that I did anything wrong because I just wasn't
> raised correctly.

Why?
 
springtime for hitler in germany

> Hello, Suzanne, sorry for the question (of course you don`t need
> to answer if don`t want to) but have you thought about me this
> holiday?

I hadn't had time! I was helping out at the kendo tournament. Teams from all over the US and Mexico. I seemed very popular with the Mexican teams for some reason.

> I thought about you... strange thoughts indeed...

> no, not sexy ones...

um...

> It must be the November 9th, isn`t it? I am already at November
> 7th...

> Oh, it`s really soo near!

> I wish again everything will be ok with your trip.

And that was a very nice e-card.

> Oh yeah... I have to find out the name of this film in the
> internet...

> yeah.

> And the Anglican Church seems someway pagan to me...

> Just kiding.

Hey we all believe in God, just not your hierarchy.

> oh, he began the video with the infamous Ouija-Board. Then the
> table makes some circles and he falls in a forest! There are
> lots of witches who make their enchantments...

> I don`t remember exactly what happens in the end, but I remember
> Morrissey trying to escape from some witches, and the witches
> happy in the end.

Cast me as one of the witches and you will have the story just right.

> I`ll see the video again and then I`ll make a better description
> to you!

> Sorry, what`s different?

> The britain pagan traditions?

> youth hostels?

> I remeber my sister went to the Brazilian State of Bahia this
> way - she liked a lot her trip!

The anglais version of the french hostel site is very....french translated literally into english.

> I`ve been always too shy to do such a thing. If I knew that I
> had to know "new" people I simply trembled. I`m not
> that shy anymore... but you see? I`m never the
> "popular" one...

I'm not popular, either, but when there are people around, it makes it a bit homier.

> Sometimes I`m really happy and I even make some jokes - but
> usually knowing new people is not my favourite sport...

> It`s a beautiful language indeed - the Portuguese.

> Weel, at least I`m a Portuguese spoken person... :)

> I think so, but I`m not that sure.

> But you see? sometimes I miss it...

> oh, don`t be angry with me...

> it must be an enormous hole in your ceiling, isn`t it?

It's not in my ceiling. It went down the wall and into the girl below me.

> thank you very much.

> And tomorrow I`ll begin English conversation classes (my teacher
> is one of my students)! I`m still really scared of speaking
> English, and I hope this will finish one day.

> And perhaps you won`t laugh of my spoken English! :)

> but don`t worry abou it - my french lessons were always like
> that. I think french teachers love to do it to their students to
> make them scared.

> anyway...

> and tell me then, please - I`m still a little bit interested by
> French people.

> do you think you have a second double life in Europe?

well, i don't know exactly how to say it, but when i go over, i'm meeting someone who lives there.

> Well, strangely I feel the same - and that my double life
> belongs to German, there`s no doubt about it.

> What I feel when I hear Schubert - who was Austrian... - lieder
> (as I am hearing now) doesn`t permit me to have a different
> opinion.

> It`s strange - sometimes I feel too happy, and sometimes I feel
> guilty (I think I`m doing some bad things).

> oh yeah, I really don`t know what`s about.

> I remeber I read about him in an encyclopedia about the
> seventies...

> I see... but Al Gore seems to be a hypocrite, isn`t he? Or am I
> wrong?

Yes, that's why I'll vote Nader, even if he drops out and I have to handwrite his name on the ballot.

> I`ve read today that George W.`s government will be less
> protectionist and therefore better to Brazil. Well, I think the
> guy is less hypocrite, and if he`ll be better to Brazil, then...
> hehehe...

George W. doesn't know jack crap about anything. Someone probably wrote that for him and told him to read it.

> There`s no doubt about it - but Church thinks they had to change
> after Church`s arriving!

> me too - an do you know where have she been?

nope.. all the little whiney babies who said she was too loud probably kept her from having a real career.

> Anyway, there was a story that the directors really scared the
> actors, do you believe in it?

i hadn't read it.

> I can`t. I particulary can`t believe the directors could be so
> evil. They really seemed to be scared.

But not a bad way of making a good horror film.

> Oh!

> I didn`t have it in the film either.

> And I think all these things were very well respect in the first
> movie. You see, all the times somebody picked up the camera
> really made sense.

> hehe... at least this would be funny...

> I hate the american teenage comedies I had to see with my
> friends when I was a teenager such that horrendous Porky`s.

that's different, and I think that falls under a bit of an older college aged crowd.

> And i never laughed in a single Mel Brooks comedy - but here the
> problem must be mine...

Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein

> oh, part 4?

> I really would like to read it.

if i ever start writing it again!

i don't exactly lead a life style that allows me to sit in one place and come up with anything.

> There`s nothing to do it, but today I almost bought some trash
> brazilian cds, but I hadn`t the courage. They are soo funny...

> this means you are angry with me or not?

Fabricio, what have i said?

That dream I had, it wasn't a good thing ya know. I had that right after you decided to send your compilation, and you know, i just don't see it as a good sign.

I know you think I'm exciting because I'm american....and, um,er, I'm...american (i can't think of anything else) but doing much beyond this really gives me the willies because I'm like that.

I don't exactly lead that Jerry springer lifestyle of having 5 guys on the side. i guess I could...10 mexican kendoists hanging out at my place (sorry, i had to throw that in coz the imagery just cracked me up tee hee!) might be possible, but urggh...

you see, when i'm in love, i'm ruined for everybody else.

> Well, what other people think about us really doesn`t count.
> Hnia thinks I am a really bad guy, and i know I`m not that bad.

oh well. you have to live with people hating you sometime.

> Just a little bit bad, you see?

> oh, I really like rainy evenings where I can huddled inside with
> some pepsi light...

Urgghh....any soft drink low-cal is disgusting.

> I agree, but I think you changed your ways after some
> conversations.

hmm. no, now that i think about it, i think i've had some lessons in anger management and in general am a bit less tense than what I was.

> you are in a strange mood, aren`t you? :)

I forgot my mood when i wrote that thing, but now, i'm very tired, and hopefully, I won't wake up cranky like i did this morning.

> Well, if people are simply dumb I think there`s no problem about
> it - but if they can`t see they are bothering me then i really
> desire to be rude...

i like doing that to the new asst. traffic manager. she is dumb as a stick.

> Why?

I think i lived under a rock for too long. It's kind of like being in one of those movies where they thaw out a caveman who had been frozen in ice for 5 thousand years and having it awake in a really bad mood and wanting to chase down and terrorize Shaggy and Scooby because it just doesnt know what else to do with itself.
 
Bon voyage, ma chérie!

Will you trip tomorrow, isn`t it?

Oh everything will be ok with you!

> I hadn't had time! I was helping out at the kendo tournament.
> Teams from all over the US and Mexico. I seemed very popular
> with the Mexican teams for some reason.

Well, if I can speak by my experience, I think you have no prejudice at all against latin american people...

> um...

oh yeah - sometimes I think about our conversations, and always in English.

I think it`s always good to practise my English!

> And that was a very nice e-card.

I'm really glad you liked it!

> Hey we all believe in God, just not your hierarchy.

hehe... I agree sometimes catholics are too much arrogant in front other religions - anyway, they have some strong reasons to do it (and strong reasons to not do it!).

> Cast me as one of the witches and you will have the story just
> right.

hehe... are you some kind of witch?

most women I know say they are so.

> The anglais version of the french hostel site is very....french
> translated literally into english.

Put the blame on William the Conqueror!

I always remember when I wrote here that something was "interessant" and the person whom I was talking told me I had a "charming" English... :)

> I'm not popular, either, but when there are people around, it
> makes it a bit homier.

This is exactly the moment where my pain begins! :)

> It's not in my ceiling. It went down the wall and into the girl
> below me.

But you said something about your ceiling, isn`t it?

Oh, and it was not your ceiling's fault...

> well, i don't know exactly how to say it, but when i go over,
> i'm meeting someone who lives there.

well, the best way of saying that is saying that, you know?

...and of course I'm interested, if you want to tell me something about it... I'll try not to be jealous over it! :)

> Yes, that's why I'll vote Nader, even if he drops out and I have
> to handwrite his name on the ballot.

I've seen Nader in the CNN today, I really liked his face. If I was American, perhaps I would vote in him.

I've seen lots of CNN this night - I tried to understand what they were saying, and I was impressed by American elections.

And there are someone in Austin today - I think there was some of the Bushs.

> George W. doesn't know jack crap about anything. Someone
> probably wrote that for him and told him to read it.

hehehe...

... but I like the guy, there's no doubt about it!

> nope.. all the little whiney babies who said she was too loud
> probably kept her from having a real career.

This is unfair - she was one of the best things in one of the better films I have ever seen.

> i hadn't read it.

> But not a bad way of making a good horror film.

hehe...

> that's different, and I think that falls under a bit of an older
> college aged crowd.

something like Dawson`s Creek?

It seems the new year of the began in Brazil and I didn`t see anything yet! This is bad.

> Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein

I think I`ve watched Young Frankstein...

> if i ever start writing it again!

oh...

> i don't exactly lead a life style that allows me to sit in one
> place and come up with anything.

Why?

> Fabricio, what have i said?

> That dream I had, it wasn't a good thing ya know. I had that
> right after you decided to send your compilation, and you know,
> i just don't see it as a good sign.

We live in two very distant places and I have sent you a cd.

I like you but I`m not that crazy, you know...

Anyway, I have to recognize I liked the fact you dreamt about me - you seem so distant sometimes...

> I know you think I'm exciting because I'm american....and,
> um,er, I'm...american (i can't think of anything else) but doing
> much beyond this really gives me the willies because I'm like
> that.

I think you are exciting because you are, Suzanne.

Anyway, sometimes I may not appear to be like that, but I try to control every second in my life.

I think you are great, you live far away from me, and I think everything is ok.

> I don't exactly lead that Jerry springer lifestyle of having 5
> guys on the side.

if you were like that I wouldn`t like you the way I do.

Well, would I? :)

>i guess I could...10 mexican kendoists hanging
> out at my place (sorry, i had to throw that in coz the imagery
> just cracked me up tee hee!) might be possible, but urggh...

hehe... I imagining the situation...

I'll stop right here!

> you see, when i'm in love, i'm ruined for everybody else.

hehehe... that`s really great...

> oh well. you have to live with people hating you sometime.

This is one of the best things I had to learn in my life.

I think I told you so, that I wanted EVERYBODY liking me... so many deceptions I had because of it!

> Urgghh....any soft drink low-cal is disgusting.

I agree your tea is much better than my Pepsi Light, but I have to be thiner...

> hmm. no, now that i think about it, i think i've had some
> lessons in anger management and in general am a bit less tense
> than what I was.

oh really?

This is excellent indeed!

> I forgot my mood when i wrote that thing, but now, i'm very
> tired, and hopefully, I won't wake up cranky like i did this
> morning.

The most part of women I know change their moods this way...

I like it...

> i like doing that to the new asst. traffic manager. she is dumb
> as a stick.

heheh...

I don`t like to be like that, but sometimes I like when people near me act this way...

> I think i lived under a rock for too long. It's kind of like
> being in one of those movies where they thaw out a caveman who
> had been frozen in ice for 5 thousand years and having it awake
> in a really bad mood and wanting to chase down and terrorize
> Shaggy and Scooby because it just doesnt know what else to do
> with itself.

anyway, I think you've been much more at ease lately... don`t you agree?
 
here is where we say 'adieu'

as you may not be able to tell, i don't have much time to write anything as here it is 2AM and i'm leaving tomorrow....er, today.

it's strange. everyone has been so nice to me about this whole thing (a friend of mine showed up on my doorstep loaning me her camera when i didn't even ask, and you with your card, a strange little fellow letting me impose, and random people I don't know that well emailing me volunteering their services should I ever be falsely arrested for an IRA bombing...just kidding) that i wished i was about to leave for Europe everyday. i'm still a bit nervous, but that has helped out a great deal.

i want to say thank you. you've been really nice, fabricio.

i hope they have a decent in-flight movie.

see you dimanche prochaine.
 
i'm tireder than i am hungry, or: Why I hate Americans

Well, salut, Fabricio! I have nothing worth eating in the kitchen at this moment, and I'm sick of take out food, and I'm too tired to go to the store, so whatever shall I do?

This has been a week to say the least. It's been bookended by pure @#!!! American style. On friday, as I worked feverishly to get caught up, and wouldn't you know that I get completely reemed out by a guy who is not even my boss for...what else?...not working hard enough. And do you know why? Because when people like him who handle the big money deal with morons who also handle the big money who happen to do something really dumb and screw up, the person lowest on the totem pole is the one who suffers. I meant to simply inform my boss about what had transpired, but I started crying in front of her. It was really pathetic because I can tell you right now had it been at any other time, I would not have done it.

Happily, my boss stood up for me and I was shocked. But I had to keep from laughing when she asked me to bring her back some Gummi Bears. She told me this story of how her uncle always brought them back from Germany. Germany....France...what's the difference?

So, then after a big to-do involving everyone and their dog, and after running incredibly late, I set in motion what would come back to haunt me when I returned: I left my car at the parking garage at work being persuaded by someone close to me that leaving it there would be safer. Big mistake. Of course it was broken into! My window smashed out, CD player, cell phone, and about 15 of my lovely CDs Travis, Belle and SEbastian, Brian Eno/John Cale all stolen. I now have to drive around in the cold with no driver side window until at least tuesday when the car people can look at it. Thank you, rat bastards, for breaking into the car of a person who makes less in one week than your stupid ass crackwhore mom does in one night.

Well, I do sound grumpy, but I had my laugh for the evening: someone around here has been spreading word that I'm Morrissey. I'm not kidding. Someone emailed asking if I would join them for tea in London. God knows why someone would think that I would travel to Paris or Bath and stay in youth hostels where I would have to intermingle with people and still qualify as being Morrissey. Rewards are being offered for the merry prankster who is blaspheming my name by associating me with the ilk of Moz. I will kill them with kindness.

What about the rest of my trip? Oh, Paris was as I expected it. Christ, you read about a place and dream about going there as much as I do and you feel like you can almost navigate yourself around without even being there. The truth is, I've decided to not pay attention to anyone anymore when it comes to travel advice. As you well know, the stereotype for the French is that they are rude and hate everyone. I live on bizarro world where the French are the most helpful and nicest people you could ever find. What's the secret to my success? Stand there and look confused. That's right. They really do notice confused people staring at the Metro map, and you don't even have to ask them. They stop and they ask YOU if you need help. Then, with your map, they will walk with you and sometimes even start trying to carry your luggage. There were a few times that I was trying to tell them in broken french that I could carry my luggage or that I had it figured out, but they won't stop until you actually make it to your platform.

But I wondered why I got the royal treatment, and after once again someone had mistaken me for a Deutchlander in the Louvre, I figured it was because I don't look American.

Americans are horrible tourists. The ones I generally ran into were dumb, and it saddens me that the inverse of their IQs generally dictate that they have more money to travel with. This one group of girls, after arriving at the hostel in Bath after midnight, expected the security guard to book them on a bus tour for the next morning. An American highschool fencing club checked in the night after, and after trying to go up to my room around 6 PM and tripping over the mass of teenagers and their middle-aged chaperones sitting sprawled in the middle of the hallway, and not once bothering to move their legs out of the way so i didn't have to jump over them like they were a hopscotch game, one adult sort of laughed and said, "huh, I guess we should have told everyone to meet in the restaurant instead!"

The group also went down to the TV room, talked loudly so you couldn't hear the TV, and began saying insulting things about Britain that were piddling and trivial where EVERYONE could hear.

I did agree about one thing: I saw Top of The Pops, and I would like to apologize right now on behalf of the Americans that think they have it bad. What the @#!!! are the Tweenies? This group dressed up like puppets escaped from a Jim Henson nightmare. I felt incredibly old when one of the 15 year olds sitting in the TV lounge with me that night said about Madonna: "I don't see the appeal. God, she's like in her 70's!" And then I remembered that when she was releasing her first songs that I was happily dancing around to, they weren't even born yet.

So, I lived like a tourist the complete time in Paris. Being the only anglophone, and being told my southern accent was too strong to make my english comprehensible, I really had to struggle with my french. of course I wanted to yell at the TV when they were covering the presidential election and they would translate an american into French for their newsreport. But I continue part II of why i won't listen to other tourists' advice: someone told me all the meals in France were about $20. I hung out in the boulangeries and got sandwiches if I wanted to be dirt cheap, and even got to real cafes for about $7 at most.

At the same time, the Paris you were told that existed is not there. Where are the sidewalks full of painters? If it did exist, at least the change wasn't as harrowing as looking around London. I'll swear to you that Oxford Circus has changed into Little America. Starbucks? Pizza Hut? Borders books? Bagel shops? Zzzzzzz.

Let's also talk about English manners. After saying farewell to my good friend in Bath (who is nothing but trouble :^) and I enjoyed every minute of it) and after wandering around a bit lost for a second, I asked a guy where the bus stops were. He started following after me and started asking me if that was my boyfriend, if I was american after hearing my accent etc. Of course, it wasn't as rude as the guy in London who was definitely not from England deciding he was going to walk alongside me. I ignored him and he said, "I am supposed to be talking to you." and he had such a heavy accent i said, "what?" a bit pissed off to confirm if this guy was actually demanding that I stop and talk to him because he ordered it. I tried to ignore it and he kept speeding up or slowing down along with me, I asked him, "why?" and he said, "because I'm interested in being with you" then I finally told him that I had someone and he finally quit. It burned me up for the rest of the day.

But I'll conclude this part and maybe get some sleep and then maybe I can start talking about the better things that happened this past week.
 
Re: i'm tireder than i am hungry, or: Why I hate Americans

I haven't read the many responses to your original "Ugly American" post- but I enjoyed reading about your Parisan adventure. Very cool. Sorry about your car ;^(
 
i want ice cream

> I haven't read the many responses to your original "Ugly
> American" post- but I enjoyed reading about your Parisan
> adventure. Very cool. Sorry about your car ;^(

my ugly american post?
 
One Scoop or Two??

> my ugly american post?
- yes... you know: slang for the way Euros think of us stereotypically. I think it's cool that you weren't treated like that. I've heard the stories about "Ugly Americans" living up to that bad rep and also stories of Euros treating respectable tourists lousy just because of the bad name our predecessors earned for them... So I summed up your long story with that...

what else is new? it's been a while...
 
two with lots of chocolate and caramel

> - yes... you know: slang for the way Euros think of us
> stereotypically. I think it's cool that you weren't treated like
> that. I've heard the stories about "Ugly Americans"
> living up to that bad rep and also stories of Euros treating
> respectable tourists lousy just because of the bad name our
> predecessors earned for them... So I summed up your long story
> with that...

ah.

well, you see, I don't stick out like a sore thumb. that's all i can figure. i don't travel with an obnoxiously loud group. i use my brain. i don't treat the rest of the planet as some extension of Disney World.

> what else is new? it's been a while...

oh.

nothing. i visited pere lachaise and hung out around Jim Morrison's and Oscar Wilde's graves for a bit. my apartment is a mess. i hadn't really cleaned it in a month. i've decided to write really cheesey date flicks like Autumn in New York because the formula is so easy. I need to have someone dying tragically young, a tarot card reader predicting their meeting, each of the lovers have a best friend/family member who gives them meaningless pearls of wisdom when they hit the rough patches. a meet up in Paris.

and here i am working at a tv station for no money whatsoever.

i need to bring a dish for the potluck lunch tomorrow. i'm still not sure what to bring.

i'm supposed to be at kendo practice tonight, but i dont' feel like it.

don't i sound like the exciting jet setter now?

at least the guy who broke into my car didn't run off with my Maladjusted CD.
 
Re: Isn't it winter there in US???

> ah.

> well, you see, I don't stick out like a sore thumb. that's all i
> can figure. i don't travel with an obnoxiously loud group. i use
> my brain. i don't treat the rest of the planet as some extension
> of Disney World.

you know, this is really nice to know, cause "some", and I mean "some" americans are so out of reality about strangers, and they have strange and funny ideas about us. I mean, things are not like in a cartoon, or so full of magic and beauty.

> oh.

> nothing. i visited pere lachaise and hung out around Jim
> Morrison's and Oscar Wilde's graves for a bit.

this is amazing !!! when i read your post for the first time, I was wondering if you went to see Wilde's grave.

> at least the guy who broke into my car didn't run off with my
> Maladjusted CD.

Oh, you must be upset with that, I'm sorry, but hopeful you still have Maladjusted...LOL
 
Coming Up...

very cool. I will respond in detail later- I am off to an Acting Workshop to have my screenplay read by fellow actors on the Fox Lot where I work... "seeya" afterward..

> ah.

> well, you see, I don't stick out like a sore thumb. that's all i
> can figure. i don't travel with an obnoxiously loud group. i use
> my brain. i don't treat the rest of the planet as some extension
> of Disney World.

> oh.

> nothing. i visited pere lachaise and hung out around Jim
> Morrison's and Oscar Wilde's graves for a bit. my apartment is a
> mess. i hadn't really cleaned it in a month. i've decided to
> write really cheesey date flicks like Autumn in New York because
> the formula is so easy. I need to have someone dying tragically
> young, a tarot card reader predicting their meeting, each of the
> lovers have a best friend/family member who gives them
> meaningless pearls of wisdom when they hit the rough patches. a
> meet up in Paris.

> and here i am working at a tv station for no money whatsoever.

> i need to bring a dish for the potluck lunch tomorrow. i'm still
> not sure what to bring.

> i'm supposed to be at kendo practice tonight, but i dont' feel
> like it.

> don't i sound like the exciting jet setter now?

> at least the guy who broke into my car didn't run off with my
> Maladjusted CD.
 
Re: Isn't it winter there in US???

> you know, this is really nice to know, cause "some",
> and I mean "some" americans are so out of reality
> about strangers, and they have strange and funny ideas about us.
> I mean, things are not like in a cartoon, or so full of magic
> and beauty.

to me, when i go somewhere, that's somebody else's turf.

but the problem I think is the yuppie types. they're so used to having their own way and happily subscribe to imperialism that they don't really feel the need to know much about or to sympathize with anybody else.

> this is amazing !!! when i read your post for the first time, I
> was wondering if you went to see Wilde's grave.

of course a pic of it is sitting on an undeveloped roll of film in my livingroom.

> Oh, you must be upset with that, I'm sorry, but hopeful you
> still have Maladjusted...LOL

no, you don't understand. i got that as a promotional CD about 12 days before it got released anywhere in stores. they did get away with "meat is murder" "bona drag" and "vauxhall" however.
 
Re: i'm tireder than i am hungry, or: Why I hate Americans

ça va, Suzanne?

tu sais que j'ai beaucoup aimé ta carte...

well, I think I have said something about it to you, that I would begin to have English conversation classes.

Well, now I pay for one of my School students to give english conversation classes to me.

My spoken English, of course, is not good but I was surprised she could understand everything I was saying!

now I am hearing a Mark Knopfler interview in a Brazilian channel. I can understand almost everything... this until CNN will bringing me back to my English-reality... :)

> Well, salut, Fabricio! I have nothing worth eating in the
> kitchen at this moment, and I'm sick of take out food, and I'm
> too tired to go to the store, so whatever shall I do?

mmmm... I don`t know... but it must have been a difficult decision... Which one you've made? :)

> This has been a week to say the least. It's been bookended by
> pure @#!!! American style. On friday, as I worked feverishly
> to get caught up, and wouldn't you know that I get completely
> reemed out by a guy who is not even my boss for...what
> else?...not working hard enough.

why people around are so bad?

> And do you know why? Because
> when people like him who handle the big money deal with morons
> who also handle the big money who happen to do something really
> dumb and screw up, the person lowest on the totem pole is the
> one who suffers.

this is real all around the world but simply doesn`t justify anything. There are good people who don`t compensate their frustrations being cruel to people below them.

> I meant to simply inform my boss about what had
> transpired, but I started crying in front of her. It was really
> pathetic because I can tell you right now had it been at any
> other time, I would not have done it.

oh... I really felt for you...

talking about this Morrissey song, it really seems a friend of mine will be sued because there`s an old and crazy woman in the building I live in. She just want to be bad with everybody around her.

> Happily, my boss stood up for me and I was shocked.

Oh, this made me really happy. I think you've been loyal to her despite everything she did to you - perhaps she finally recognized it.

> But I had to
> keep from laughing when she asked me to bring her back some
> Gummi Bears. She told me this story of how her uncle always
> brought them back from Germany. Germany....France...what's the
> difference?

hehehehe... none...

and both languages are very similar too...

> So, then after a big to-do involving everyone and their dog, and
> after running incredibly late, I set in motion what would come
> back to haunt me when I returned: I left my car at the parking
> garage at work being persuaded by someone close to me that
> leaving it there would be safer. Big mistake. Of course it was
> broken into! My window smashed out, CD player, cell phone, and
> about 15 of my lovely CDs Travis, Belle and SEbastian, Brian
> Eno/John Cale all stolen. I now have to drive around in the cold
> with no driver side window until at least tuesday when the car
> people can look at it. Thank you, rat bastards, for breaking
> into the car of a person who makes less in one week than your
> stupid ass crackwhore mom does in one night.

I really felt for you again... :-(

My parents had recently their house invaded by assailants and they stole the few jewels my mother still had (her other jewels had been stolen more than 10 years ago). She said the sensation of having her house invaded were still worse than the robbery itself.

> Well, I do sound grumpy,
> but I had my laugh for the evening:
> someone around here has been spreading word that I'm Morrissey.

around here where? in internet?

but how this strange thing happened?

> I'm not kidding. Someone emailed asking if I would join them for
> tea in London. God knows why someone would think that I would
> travel to Paris or Bath and stay in youth hostels where I would
> have to intermingle with people and still qualify as being
> Morrissey.

this is funny indeed...

> Rewards are being offered for the merry prankster who
> is blaspheming my name by associating me with the ilk of Moz. I
> will kill them with kindness.

heheheh...

Oh, and be sure I was not the guy who did it!

> What about the rest of my trip? Oh, Paris was as I expected it.
> Christ, you read about a place and dream about going there as
> much as I do and you feel like you can almost navigate yourself
> around without even being there.

Do you really like French more than other countries? I used to be that way...

... that`s why I learnt French before I have learnt english.

> The truth is, I've decided to
> not pay attention to anyone anymore when it comes to travel
> advice. As you well know, the stereotype for the French is that
> they are rude and hate everyone. I live on bizarro world where
> the French are the most helpful and nicest people you could ever
> find. What's the secret to my success? Stand there and look
> confused. That's right. They really do notice confused people
> staring at the Metro map, and you don't even have to ask them.
> They stop and they ask YOU if you need help. Then, with your
> map, they will walk with you and sometimes even start trying to
> carry your luggage. There were a few times that I was trying to
> tell them in broken french that I could carry my luggage or that
> I had it figured out, but they won't stop until you actually
> make it to your platform.

But this is really really amazing, you know?

But you know, if you were looking confused in front of me I would like to help you indeed... :)

I really don`t know what to say about French people. I knew some of them in the History and Litterature course I did in the end of my French course, and some of them were nice and some of them not.

Well, anyway they all seemed a little bit strange...

... but I know I am a little bit strange too... :)

> But I wondered why I got the royal treatment, and after once
> again someone had mistaken me for a Deutchlander in the Louvre,
> I figured it was because I don't look American.

perhaps they were affraid of Germans because of the WW II, and then they think if they treat Germans well they won`t be invaded again... :)

Anyway, I was remembering the 1982 Soccer World Cup when France was defeated by German after being winning in the extra-time by two goals of advantage...

were they still affraid of Germans?

Well, just kidding.

Anyway, do you think in fact French people hate americans?

> Americans are horrible tourists.

I think brazilian ones are horrible too.

I remember when I went to Europe how I was ashamed by my compatriots' behaviour.

They simply spoke too loud. The brazilian guy who helped us in Paris said he helped a brazilian soccer team and he admonished them all the time because of the way they behaved in Paris.

>The ones I generally ran into
> were dumb, and it saddens me that the inverse of their IQs
> generally dictate that they have more money to travel with.

Some people think they can do everything because of their money, isn`t it?

> This
> one group of girls, after arriving at the hostel in Bath after
> midnight, expected the security guard to book them on a bus tour
> for the next morning. An American highschool fencing club
> checked in the night after, and after trying to go up to my room
> around 6 PM and tripping over the mass of teenagers and their
> middle-aged chaperones sitting sprawled in the middle of the
> hallway, and not once bothering to move their legs out of the
> way so i didn't have to jump over them like they were a
> hopscotch game, one adult sort of laughed and said, "huh, I
> guess we should have told everyone to meet in the restaurant
> instead!"

oh... I was always ashamed when my compatriots acted like that in Europe...

I remember when we were in a bus watching some French beaches where it`s possible to make a topless. Well, all brazilians in the bus made such a spetacle, taking photos of the girls and so on that I had desire to ask for asylum in France...

I don`t know, it seems French people are so more elevated someway, isn`t it?

> The group also went down to the TV room, talked loudly so you
> couldn't hear the TV, and began saying insulting things about
> Britain that were piddling and trivial where EVERYONE could
> hear.

oh yeah - brazilian people in foreign lands act always like that.

Japanese people seem to walk always toghether, isn`t it? But i wouldn`t be ashamed of them if I were japanese... :)

> I did agree about one thing: I saw Top of The Pops, and I would
> like to apologize right now on behalf of the Americans that
> think they have it bad. What the @#!!! are the Tweenies? This
> group dressed up like puppets escaped from a Jim Henson
> nightmare.

i have never heard about it...

>I felt incredibly old when one of the 15 year olds
> sitting in the TV lounge with me that night said about Madonna:
> "I don't see the appeal. God, she's like in her 70's!"
> And then I remembered that when she was releasing her first
> songs that I was happily dancing around to, they weren't even
> born yet.

Well, you can imagine my surprise: I studied in the School (called Cefet)I give classes nowadays from 15 to 18 years old... and when I ask my students most of them say the year I entered in Cefet they were one or two years old...

> So, I lived like a tourist the complete time in Paris. Being the
> only anglophone, and being told my southern accent was too
> strong to make my english comprehensible, I really had to
> struggle with my french. of course I wanted to yell at the TV
> when they were covering the presidential election and they would
> translate an american into French for their newsreport.

translate an american into French? this newsreport was from whom?

>But I
> continue part II of why i won't listen to other tourists'
> advice: someone told me all the meals in France were about $20.
> I hung out in the boulangeries and got sandwiches if I wanted to
> be dirt cheap, and even got to real cafes for about $7 at most.

but this was bad? and French meals were really around $20?

> At the same time, the Paris you were told that existed is not
> there. Where are the sidewalks full of painters? If it did
> exist, at least the change wasn't as harrowing as looking around
> London.

i went to Paris in 1982 and I really saw the streets full of painters... but frankly I thought all the thing a little bit pathetic. They all painted the same picture!

>I'll swear to you that Oxford Circus has changed into
> Little America. Starbucks? Pizza Hut? Borders books? Bagel
> shops? Zzzzzzz.

Oh, the world belongs to America!!!

> Let's also talk about English manners. After saying farewell to
> my good friend in Bath (who is nothing but trouble :^) and I
> enjoyed every minute of it)

this is fine...

>and after wandering around a bit
> lost for a second, I asked a guy where the bus stops were. He
> started following after me and started asking me if that was my
> boyfriend, if I was american after hearing my accent etc.

but this is strange, isn`t it?

I think I would be affraid...

Anyway, normally people don`t act like that with men...

> Of
> course, it wasn't as rude as the guy in London who was
> definitely not from England deciding he was going to walk
> alongside me. I ignored him and he said, "I am supposed to
> be talking to you." and he had such a heavy accent i said,
> "what?" a bit pissed off to confirm if this guy was
> actually demanding that I stop and talk to him because he
> ordered it. I tried to ignore it and he kept speeding up or
> slowing down along with me, I asked him, "why?" and he
> said, "because I'm interested in being with you" then
> I finally told him that I had someone and he finally quit. It
> burned me up for the rest of the day.

I understand - this is a really scaring experience.

> But I'll conclude this part and maybe get some sleep and then
> maybe I can start talking about the better things that happened
> this past week.

oh... you know very well I`ll be very happy if you`ll do it.

I really enjoyed your post!
 
Re: Coming Up...

> very cool. I will respond in detail later- I am off to an Acting
> Workshop to have my screenplay read by fellow actors on the Fox
> Lot where I work... "seeya" afterward..

ugh. if that were me, i would stay home. i hate having my things read openly in front of an audience like that.

anyway, i'm still trying to think of a good scenario where the really rich guy would have an excuse to call the waitress at the family restaurant. maybe his sister-in-law needs a babysitter....and he noticed that her life dream was to illustrate for children's novels.

hmmm.....this is frightening.
 
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